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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1918)
SUPPLE VIENT TME STAYTON MAIL ORGANIZE TO FIGHT LIFE AT ITS WORST size, and asked her to try the wulst on. AT HOME IN WILD PLACES When she returned the lit was pro nounced iM-rfeet, und the young ofllcer Adventure* T h a t W ould Demoralize nodded approvingly and paid the cash O rd in a ry Man A pparently Havo ier. As he turned hack to cluliu the No Effect on John M uir. Baboons Make W ar Very Much article, the clerk flew Into his arms and kissed him agulu and aguln. exclaim John Vance Ohene^, the |<oet. to!J as Do Human Deings. ing. "Thunk you, thank you.” All the me this story of tils long-time frleiei. other clerk* In the atore then caught John Muir. William 11. H.uuhy writes the Idea that the handsome young Am ple Proof That Intelligent Beasts American was “setting them up" gen iu th<- Outlook. “One night, after a long absence, Recognise the Value of Co-opera erally to girls wftn wanted new wai if, Muir walked In. a* he often did, look tion— Also Capable of Self Sac and begged til in tn tiuy for them also. ing like a wild man. and sat down by rifice In A M ing the Young. The olltis'r Anally excused a retreat to my Are. He hud been up In the Hler- some manner or other, hut the sister ras for weeks. If w«\nre to credit til«* t*'Ht!inony on In Topeka has pot yet reo Ived any “ ‘Had u beautiful storm up there,’ the subject nfTcrcd hjr naturalists, umo present. said Muir, after he got a little accus lx not the only animal who carrion on tomed to the tire and the presence of bin warfare by means of «irganlaad a 'fe llo w human being. ‘Snow was ON ROAD TO DESTRUCTION handa, and ralln in the forces of na walstdeep In most places. One night ture to annlnt him. There have Item Specific T im s Appointed for the I found a crevasse where steam wns wllnrm nl In Africa tight* that were coming out of the mountain. I lay C a rtb’s Ending, but It Is Stdl conducted In on orderly a manner an down as close to It ns I could and when Some Few Year*. If the warrior« hud been really men. one side froze numb I would turn it Inntead of only somewhat tike them over to the steam. / njmrently all Is off I In form, I. hnhonna. “ Tn the night I doged and waked to Tills little old hattle-Bcdrrcd earth, One nnliirnllnt wan atoned out of a a mere eln.v marble among the billiard feel something warm on my face that |m»n In a very few minutes by these halls of the great solar systems. Is did not feel like steam. I did not stir, creatures, who sprang upon ledges and Iieud'-d for the giant sun. Vent, and hut opened my eyes very slowly. It stones, looked down for n few mo humping Itself at a gult of 54<>.(XX),000 was a grizzly bear licking my face!’ ments on the valley, growling, snarl miles si year! “The geologist looked around at me ing and screaming, and then began to But there Is no Justification for that with a twinkle. ‘Now I call that a roll down Nturuyi with so much vigor liir-omt desire to get off mid walk, say* right friendly act of that old bear.’ and adroitness that the Intruders took the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. We “ ’Didn’t you ever get scared at any to flight. The baboons evidently knew need not worry about what will hap thing In the woods?’ I nsked. II«- al the value of cooperation, for the nat pen when our speedy little sphere ways went Into the wilds unarmed. In uralist saw two of them combine their reaches Its present destination. It will fact, usually the only preparation he efforts In order to set n jiarflctilarly he mjr descendants of IWlfstO.OOO would make ror a five m*mths’ trip heavy stone rolling. One nmukey. years hence thnt will he yelling f r would be to take his hut off the hall bent on making the most of Ids mis a transfer to wane other line. And rack. sile. was seen to carry a stone up a even when that time comes there ts a ” ‘Well,’ he confessed, ‘once I was a tree, thnt he might hurl It with great possibility that Vega will have side little embarrassed by fear. You know er foree. stepped or ducked, so we ran whl/. what acres of blackberries grow up Once, while some baboons were right h.v. in the mountains. They were ripe, crossing a valley, they were attacked So. S. I,. Boothrnyd. associate pro and I waded Into a patch to help my by dogs, and. sn Is usual during a fessor of astronomy at the University self. There was a scuffling poise 15 march, the females and young were In of Washington, told a large audience feet away nnd I saw nn old grizzly also the center, the males heading the col of men and women recently. In a lec ludiiing himself. His method was to umn and bringing up In the rear. As ture on "'rile Nebulae of the Stars." reach out nnd rake In an armful, eat the d o g s rushed upon them the males Tie* eclipse o f the sun, which will ing berries, tops and all. Tb it old turned and faced their enemies, grnwd- he almost eoin'ilete In Seattle on Ju:.e grizzly looked at me In a way that sug Ing. heating the ground with their 8 next, will he one of the numt re- gested I was an Intruder, a trespasser, hands, nnd opening their mouths wide, mark.dile sights ever permitted man committing a willful misdemeanor. so ns to show their glittering teeth. to see. declared 1‘rofessor Boothroyd. “ ‘I returned his look in the friendli They looked so fierce nnd malignant Tin- astronomers, with powerful tel est sort of way. trying to convey to that the dogs— Arnb greyhounds, nc- | escopes. can w itness an eclipse evt ry him the Impression that I hnd no custnmed to fight successfully with hy 58 hours. If they wish to. The star thought of intrusion; that I admitted enas and other hensts of prey— shrank A lg o l, which Is a huge sun. end Is h> the berry putch wns his, but in passing hack. Ily the time they had been en- rated in the northern heavens at this nad merely stopped to taste a mouth couragi'd to renew the attack, the time of the year. In the sword hand of ful of berries— and that I was going whole herd hnd made their way. cover Perseus, Is eclipsed every 58 hours b/ on In a minute. ed hy the rear guard, to the roeks, one a dark stnr thnt passes between It “ ‘I did.’ smiled John Muir, ‘n less slx-months-old monkey excepted. and the earth. This accounts, says than a minute, for he did not seem to This little monkey sat on a mck sur Professor Boothroyd. f«y the fact that get my Impression, but started to gath rounded hy the dogs; hut ho was not Algol will gradually grow dltn, and er me In with his next armful of black long left In Ills perilous position. An then, within a few minutes, flash up berry vines.’ " old baboon stepped from a elltf near by. advanced tnwnrd the doga, keep hrlghthly again. New worlds nnd suns are In process “ Fittest” Under A rctic Circle. ing them In cheek by threatening g« *• of creation In the heavenly nebulae, W e think of Ureenland us a frozen turea nnd sound*, picked Up the baby said Professor Boothroyd. The rare and desolate land, tit only for the monkey, nnd carried It to a place of i fled gases composing the nehulae, and safety on the rllff, while the whole abode of the hardy Eskimos. And yet which consist of atomic particles less In Finland, In a severe northern cli crowd of hahoons watched the net complex than the atoms of Iron and of heroism nnd shouted their buttle mate, has grown up a hardy and virile mercury on our sphere, are gradually race, Nevln O. Winter writes In the cry. beenmlng more dense. After countless Cbristinn Herald. Perhaps It was be ages they become solid planets, or cause only the sturdiest could survive Peanuts U p a Peg. some cataclysm of the heavens niny so under such conditions, for Isolation Until recently the peanut wns re heat the particles composing them that br«-d self-reliance and Industry was ne garded ns a fitaual— one might almost they become suns. cessary to existence. At any rate, the any sportive— article of provender. It ------------------ » --------- fact remains that the Finns have de has been looked upon ns appropriate Am erican Com mander Praised. veloped a civilization that Is uuique to the small hoy and the circus. The I Through Its ambassador to this coun nnd of Interest. It Is not surprising, "peanut gallery,” though hut n mem- j try the British government has Just to one familiar with the Finns and ory to the present generation. Is a not- conferred exceptional honors upon the their history, to know thnt a republic forgoten term for the cheap scuts at commander of a United States navy has been proclaimed. No people are the top of n thunter. vessel operating In foreign waters. Fot more truly democratic. Under the au- But now It Is different The long- j service in nn encounter with a Herman toorntlc rule of the czurs Finland main despised peanut Is coming luto Its own. submarine the British admiralty has tained her democratic Institutions, nnd It has the emphatic Indorsement of recommended the decoration of th* it was tlu- only part of llussia where Mi. Hoover. Our people are advised Distinguished Service order for Lieut. the traveler was free to move about to eat peanuts. Com. George F. Neal, U. S. N., who without hnvlng n demand made almost You see, the peanut Is not n nut at I was In charge of an American destroy- dnilv for his passport. The Russian nil. properly speaking. It Is a kind of er. This ship was one of a nutnbei cab <lar, which Is thlrt«-en days be p ea; nnd. Ilko other legumes, It Is rich escorting transports through the war lli! - ir own, wns Ignored and In ev- In tissue-milking atutT. A paVer hag zone when the quartermaster sighted e- the public and social customs of peanuts (even nowadays, when the wake of a periscope, 1.S00 yards d nun those of the Russians. somewhat reduced In size) affords a distant. General quarters were sound fairly squnre meal. ed ami the commanding ofllcer at once Tlie new republic of Finland starts The peanut, however, may be util began to maneuver with the enemy. He Its career with one Invaluable asset— ized to advantage In nmkery— for soup, immediately sjjot his ship head on nt a highly efficient system of education. for ‘•peanut loaf," ami In other ways. the U-bont. Getting ahead of the peri Finnish elementary school« are models If you want the recipes, you cun get scope he ordered a depth charge drop of excellence, and In an International them from the food administration at ped. Nothing more was seen of the competition some few years since Fin Washington. submarine nnd It wns evident thnt hot land won the covete«l distinction of damage had been serious. The British hnvlng the hlghi-st educational stand Th o u g h t He Wa* “ Setting ’ Em U p ." admiralty credits the success of the ard of any country tn the world, beat A young Topekn army ofllcer, now In destroyer to the alertness of the com ing even the UTiited States nnd Ger France, was seized while In Paris with mander nnd the manner In which h< many. Particular attention Is given to a desire to send his ulster a present, handled the attack. Lieutenant Cone the teaching of languages. The two and Anally decided on a waist, says mender Neal Is n native of Tennessee. state languages, Finnish and Swedish, the Kansas City Stnr. lie entered a He graduated front the naval academy are taught In the elementary stand fashionable shop and selected n waist, In 1807. Under the Inws of this coun ards, and until recently Russian also. but not knowing the size his sister r ■- try officers are not nllowed to receive A know ledge of five or six languages Is qulred, singled out a pretty Pari i decorations from foreign powers. reckoned nothing exceptional among clerk who looked about his sis i even nilddlg-chisa folk In Finland. YVi!d Orgies in f.'ushroom Towns Along Union Pacific. Teeres T h a t Can O n ly Be Oezcrlbed at Reversion of Mankind to the Savage, Common in the E a rly Days of the West. Travelers who whisk across the country In luxurious trains today lit tle realize the vision, the toll and the sacrifice that mad«? possible the steel road over which th«*y roll along. In the building of the first railroad nrr«»s* th«- continent Is to be found the theme which bus thrilled Zune Grey in “The U. P. Trail.” Among the pictures drawn by Mr. Grey of the scenes and incidents at tendant up«in the building of the Union Pacific one of the most vivid Is that of a night following pay day in Benton, one of the towns of the type that sprung up In the wake of the road in the day* during its construction, an ex change says: “Life Indoors that night In Benton was monstrous, wonderful and hid«-ous. The gold that did not flow over the bars went Into the greedy han'ls of the cotd. swift gamblers or Into the clutch ing fingers of the wild-eyed women. The big gambling h«-ll had extra lights, extra attendants, extra tables; and there r«iund the great glittering mir ror-blazing bar strugglt'd nnd laughed and shoute«! a drtfik-sodden mass of humanity. And all through the rest of the big room groups and knots of men stood nml sat around tables. Intent, absorbed, obsess «ui, listening with straine«l enrs. watching with wild ey«*s. reaching with shaking hands— only to gasp and throw dffwn their cards and pu«h gold toward colfl faced gamblers, with a muttered curse. This was the night of the g«>lden harvest for the black-garbed, steel-nerved, cold-eyed card sharps. They knew th« brevity of time, and of hour, and of life. “In the dancing halls there was a ma«Idenlng whirl, nn Immense and in- ereditile hilarity a wild fling of un leashed, burly men. an honest drunken spree. But there was also the hideous, red-eyed drunkenness that did not spring from drink; the unveiled pas sion, the brazen lnre, the raw, corrupt und terrible presence of bau women In absolute license at a wild and baneful hour. “The scene at midnight was unreal, livid, medieval. Dance of cannibals, «lance of sun worshipers, danro of Apaches on the warpath, dance of cliff dwellers wild over the massacre of a drench'd foe— only these orgies might have been comparable to that wild whirl of gold and lust. “Night wore on and the hour of dawn approached. “The lamps were dead; the tents were d ark ; the music was stilled: and the low, soft roar was but a hollow mockery of Its earlier strength. “Like specters men staggered slowly and wanderingly through the gray streets. Gray ghosts! All was gray. A vacant laugh poali'd out and a strident curse, and thtm again the low murmur prevailed. Benton was going to rest. Weary, drunken, spent nnture sought oblivion— on disordered beds, on hard floors and In dusty corners. An im mense nnd hovering shadow h»!d the tents and halls and streets. Through this opaque gloom the silenf and the mumbling revelers reeled along. Loud er voices broke the spell only for an Instant. Death lay in the middle of the main street. In the dust— and no passing man halted. It lay as well down the side «troets. In sandy ditches and on the tent floors, and behind the bar of the gambling hell. Likewise death had his counterpart in hundreds of prostrnte men who lay In drunken stupor, asleep. Insensible to the dust In their faces. “But the dawn would not stay hack In ortler to hide Benton’s hideousness. The gray lifted out of the streets, the shadows lighten*‘d, the east kindled and the sweet, soft freshness of a des ert dawn came in on the gentle breeze. And when the snn arose, splendid and golden, with Its promise and beauty. It shone upon a ghastly, silent, motlou- less, sleeping Benton."